The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-23 00:00:00

lOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, 11.) Covent -garden. lm this timeuntil the end of the season there will be four , pera nights u in each week, viz., every Monday, Tmzsdao hursday, and Saturday. Extra Night. [dlle. Lucca ; Mdlle. Battu; Madame Didiee ; M. Faure ; Signor A.ttri; and Signor 3lhrio. 'HIS EVENING (MONDAY), May 21d, will be per med, for the econd time this season, Meyerbeer's Grand era, LES HUGUENOTS. Valentic,a, Mdlle. Pauline cza ; 31argari a de Valois, 3ldlle. Marie Battu ; Dama )nore, 31 .dame Tag'iafico; Urban°, Madame Didiee ; C o nte di San Bri , Faure ; Marcella Signor Attri ; C on te do Nevers, Signor Tael tafico ; Meru,Signor lonini ; De Retz, Signor Fa lar: Huguenot Soldier, Signor ; and Raoul, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Incidental Divertissement wi I be supported by Mdl!e. lvieni, Mdlle. Carmine, and 31 . De,plae,. Commence at hall past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre sta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; aphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had the box-offic2 under the portico of the tbea:re, which is en from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and irarians'. [IEIEATRE ROYAL HAYNIARKET. - Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, hippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark , Weatheraby, :escilines Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Mes- After which, the new Easter piece , enti tled VENUS AND .DONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farrell, Coe. &c. amesLoaise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly Tower, Hill, Wright, :o;ers, To conclude with MRS. WHITE. Mr. Compton. Commence at 7. IOYAI, LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHTER will perform HAMLE THIS EVENING dONDAY). Claudius, Mr. Emery ; Polonius, Mr. John. rougharn ; Ghost, Mr. G . Jordan ; Laertes, Mr.. C. Vanden f.ff ; Holatio, Mr. J. G. Sho First Gravedigger . Mr. H. Viddicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles; Messrs. W M'lntyre, % Morton, Raymond, Moreland , Clifford, Edmonds, Wall ank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss gate Terry ; Actress, Miss M. lenrade ; and Gertrude , Miss Elsworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice. —The doors open athalf-past 7, and Hamlet com mences at 8. Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy )Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, Shakspere's ROMEO AND JULIET. Ro meo, Mr. J. Nelson ; Mercutio, Nr. Vining ; Nurse, Mrs. 11. Iliarston ; Juliet, 31dlle. Stella Colas. EW THEATRE-KO !AL, ADELPHI.- nolo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Last Week but two of 'he Great Tragediene, Miss Bateman, in the character of LEAti. THIS EVENING,an apropos Sketch. SHAKESPEARE'S HOUSE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Stephenson. Af er which, at 8, LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Eburne, itephenson ; mrs. Billington. To conclude with THE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Too:e, Bedford, tt. Romer, Miss Woolor, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. Nt 'Ss EVENING and EVERY BATE M A N.—L E A H.—THIb EVENING.—Miss Bateman will appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish natden until further notice. In order , o give due effect to ails most remarkable succes 3 of the se son, ea,irety new scenery by the celebrates artists Messrs. 'Janson and t-ons t , Lod Thornps,n. New dry ssA and app o ntments have bea prepare , t for its production N. rt. In at the Is conseque ox-otnce of t ar he s tr essing and numerous atpplications fix, mgement- , have now been made by which Seats m y b,.t ob tained a fortnight in Auv,,n_e. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Dion Boucicault, Esq., every Evening. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charles Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr..'. Clarke, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. F. .tobinson. Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss Herbert, Mrs Frank Matthews, Miss H. Simms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Funny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, bliss Wentwortn, and Mrs. Stirring. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and orip.inal Comely. In 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE, Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cham 'er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta Simms (her first appearance here). At 10, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND. Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Frank al atthews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke; Miss Fanny Josephs. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1861. ~ -~~-- The fearful slaughter again going on out at the seat of war in North America is calculate& we should imagine, to put even the most infatuated stieklers far the universal application of the Non-Interven tion principle, or policy, slightly out of conceit with their exceedingly safe, but sometimes also (we can quite imagine the contingency) exceedingly me ,n panacea. Forty thousand Federala—accord ing to their own account—put hors-de combat, that is, 40,000 killed and tsonnded by reason of the last hideous few hours fighting 1 Forty thousand Federals. The Federals being the assailants. But how many Confederates have been maimed and killed we have yet to learn. Probably a correspondingly frightful aggregate of brave men destroyed and annihilated. So that is two or three days the chief part of a round 100,000 American citizens have been swept off either sud denly to the grave or agonized to the military hospitals and ambulances. And here again without anything at all deci sive as a grim c ompensat i on f o r this wasteful destruction of human life. The Fede rale, it istrne, have advanced at the end of their three days' fighting. But in their advance they approach the ably withdrawn forces of LEE in a stronger position than ever. In a position so strong that it is reputed to be all but impregnable. Insomuch that it is absolutely being likened, we observe, to the renowned position taken up by WELLINGTON in the Peninsula, behind the lines of Torres Vedras. The object is, of course, to get at the Southern capital, the capital of Richmond. And, in aiming ar this, they are so tar advancing towards their atm, thous Northerners : But, it must be confessed, their successes hitherto, in this advance, are most carinusly and strangely questionable. They fight, for instal:nes on the 5 t 11 , 9 Lh aid 10 h instants, the Federal:s under Generals HANCOCK, 'WARREN, and their Southe rn f oe under Ge- SEDG WICK assailing nerals HILL, EWELL ; and LONGSTREET. The con tat between the twn armies being such, according to the Federals' own account, that they, th e Northerners, on their own side lose 40,000 tan _ and with these 40,000 two out of their three Gene. rave, both WARREN and SEIY:i1VICII: being announced as killed. Oa the Southern side we know not yo how much has been their total of killed and wounded —knowing, in fact, at the present, for it 23 t 4n c e. bat of one man out of their whole a:nay stint wounde'!, that one man however being about the noblest soldie: of them all under LEE, namely, La's veritable brother-in-aims, the gallant and gitted LONGSTREET. There is unhappily but little room left for hope that the reported deaths of the two Federal Generals, that iS WARREN and SEDGEWICK, may be found to have been wrongly so reported as killed. But to the last we shall continue to hope that the wounding of LONGSTREET may prove to have been nothing serious. His loss, in effect, would, for the.cause of the South, be second only to the yet lamented loss of the famous " STONEWALL" JACKSON. The new pc&tion taken up by LEE since his retreat — that retreat of the Confederates being in truth, strictly a strategic movement—the Federal assail. ants having been repulsed at all points on the Bth, the 9th, and the 10'h instant—is unders'ood to be further south than Spottsyl. ♦annia, on tho road to Richmond. The upshot of it all being theA in traversing merely 20 miles on their way towards the Southern capital,the northern army has lost two Generals as well as 40,000 men in killed and wounded. With only too fearful reason, it must be said that the sensation headers of the deadly news from the Seat of War, in the New York newspapers, included among them in flaming capitals, AWFUL FIGHTING IN VIRGINIA. The fighting being doubly awful thus in truth—first, because the war is a civil war; and, secondly, because the fighting, even thus frightfully, has led to no decisive result. Herr VON BISMARK seems determined to let there be no mistake regarding his notions on the chief topics of the important concerns now occu- pying the Conference. It would appear as if the Prussians had resolved to try how much they could do to outrage public opinion and to exhibit their utter indifference to the restraints which compacts and obligations impose. The London Treaty is now, it is alleged, to be looked upon as nil, and the astute and active b:ain of the Berlin Minister is employed in twisting phrases and distorting facts until he makes out a very specious show, and de- ), monstrates how right and proper it is to ignore the terms of the treaty altogether. It is true that many persons of experience were sage enough to prophecy that this would b 3 the next move; bat notwithstanding it is most likely that the authentic announcement of the determination will astonish and annoy many. There are always some infatuated individuals who will persuade themselves that things will go right in the end, and however per verse the authorities may be at present, that they will shortly hear reason. These sanguine expec tations have not assuredly been fulfilled in the smallest degree since the commencement of the late war, and far from any hope of seeing its fulfilment we may rather say that our fears have been more than realised. This last move of Herr TON BIS MARK'S is to do away with the least chance of the Conference interfering with his cherished plans, and to destroy the only hope that remains of a satisfactory adjustment being arrived at. It is all very fine for him to go back so far, and try to make out a case for himself, but it does not need a very sharp-sighted politician to detect the inconsistence of his arguments. If the Danish Government had gone too far in its attempts to frame the constitu tion of Schleswig, was that a reason why such in tolerable conduct should be exhibited by the Prus sians in particular, and the allied armies in general. The whole of the despatch is a contradiction in terms, and explains very accurately the disin genuous form adopted by the Prussians when ex plaining a difficult question of their foreign policy. All through the retrospective glance we meet with a series of encroachments on the part of the Danes, and of wise forbearance and finally slow resort to arms for the restitution of their rights. A stranger who studied BISMARK'EI letter attentively would never have imagined that the issues of the contest thus begun had attracted the earnest attention of all Europe, and that all sympathy IV'S on the side of the people so denounced and stigmatised by the official narrator of events in this epistle. It must be borne in mind that this is all written for a purpose, and that in some respects it is almost useless to discuss it too particularly and to analyse its bearings too closely, for it is the ex pression of opinion on the part of those who have made up their minds beforehand what to do, and afterwards invent a plausible reason for their ma ll coavres. It makes very little difference to the Prussians whether the terms of the London Treaty are complied with or not, but it is a very convee nient excuse for violence and oppression to assert that the Danes have violated the solemn engage ments entered into, and that the honour and in terests of Prussia alike call for their fulfilment, or for some new proposal being entered upon. In his statement about the Dance not fulfilling their con tract, Herr von BISMARK seems totally to forget that he is insulting the Powers that were parties to the Treaty of 1832, and that he is virtually telling them to let him alone, for they cannot or else dare not interfere with him to prevent the execution of his design. After perusing the communication of the Prussian Minister to the Ambassador in Lon don we may well ask what is the use of having agreed to a Conference at all if the ground is to be cut away from under the feet of those who delibee rate. The members of the conclave meet to impress the necessity or urge the advisability of Prussia adhering to some fixed regulations, and maintain ing her engagements with Denmark, and also with the other countries that were parties to the Treaty. Instead of agreeing readily the Cabinet of Berlin have, from the outset of the deliberations, inter posed as many obstacles as they can to the fulfilment of the purpose of the meeting. First there was a serios of delays before beginning the deliberations; then upon one protest or another a perpetual put ting off when the business had actually commenced. Now we meet with a more serious check than any previously encountered in this abjuration by Herr BISMARK, of the vital principles of the rights of nations--a more arrogant piece of assumption than this declaration has seldom been perused. First of all there is a recapitulatio n of the assertions of the Government of King WILLIAM, and then from these it is deduced that the Prussians have a right to act upon the threats and menaces which have been so plentifuly hurled against th e D anes. This is strange reasoning, and indicates a total want of respect for the opinion of others, and a complete disregard for the observance of solemn obligati ons that alternately amazes and exasperates one. W e are fallen upon evil days indeed if the spirit of Er gland is to submit to this indlguity, and the intelligence of her people to stoop to such a level as that to which M. BISMARK seeks to degrade tie. If it is to go faith to the world that we are unable or ants illiog to protect cur allies feom the rupture of treaties to et hich we were parties, and to interpose any check to the attempts of invaders against their privilegee,we had better not mix up in foreip affairs at all. If it amounts to this that we mnet not vin dicate our rights or arcnga the wrongs of others, if we are powerless to support our integrity and assist their independence, it stands to reason that it will very soon cease to concern the aggressive States, whether England approves of their conduct or not, a n d t h at all she does is to sen d d e spatches that give e ncouragement, and by standing s till warn ing. Much has b een saidandthewnrtitotenre our our mismanagement of the Danish question, but no witnese has y © t stood forth w i t h such condemna t ory disavow f ar t d h i e n when no heed is paid to proof of our dereliction from duty as the writer of this communication. In every line of it wo learn the certainty of the aggression of Prussia, and also the confirmation of the reticence of England. The claims of the literary profession upon public sympathy and assistance when age, infirmity, or misfortune steps in to paralyse the hand of the worker for his fellow-men, have long been gene rally acknowledged. The official provision made by our wealthy country is, it is true, of very slender amount, and small as the sum so set aside is origi nally, it is still further diminished by being fre quently partially diverted from its purpose. Many not coming directly within the ranks of the literary profession have had a share in the annual twelve hundred, and, although their claims to recognition may have been equally pressing, they should cer tainly have been provided for out of some other fund than that specially set aside for the benefit of men of letters. Owing partly to the inadequacy of the State provision, and partly to the vicissitudes of an exhausting and fluctuating profession, the Literary Fund has been only too much needed to supplement the aid afforded by Government. There is, however, a very important branch of the literary profession, whose ranks are so wide and deep that they include many not strictly coming under the title of men of letters: Yet their labours are often more arduous, always more incessant. Their public services are universally appreciated, and their means of subsistence frequently entirely dependent on the possession of sound health and unflagging energies. To meet the necessities of this numerous body the Newspaper Press Fund, already in exist ence, has been re-organised, and its inaugural dinner was celebrated en Saturday evening, under the presidency of an accomplished and consistent friend of the Press—Lord HOUGHTON. It was a grati fying assembly, and its results promised well for the future of the Fund, the list of subscriptions and donations amounting to £1,500. Kindly wishes, too, pour in from all sides. The magnates of the land rivalled the self-made men who tendered the ex pression of their hearty goodwill and sympathy. Men of war and peace, statesmen and lawyers, politicians and men of business, and above all literary men and artists were ready with the word of good speed and the helping hand. Whig and Tory, Liberal and Conservative, united in support of an institution whose members belong to no one sect or party, but whose influence has done so much towards breaking down the old barriers of party feeling and religious intolerance. The un dertaking is not to be altogether of an eleemo synary character, since it is to include subscrips tions from members as well as those donations, bequests, and contributions which form the regu lar income of a charitable association. The society lost nothing in the hands of its President, whose able advocacy set forward its claims in'the strongest and most impressive manner. He re minded his hearers that this institution owed its origin to the efforts of some benevolent men many years ago, who thought that the establishment of a mutual assurance society of gentlemen connected with the press would be a valuable achievement. " It was thought," in the words of Lord HouGH TON, " that the press of this country was an in stitution large enough, and various enough, and therefore from its breadth and its variety, fortunate and unfortunate enough to authorise you to bind together your sheaves in your good fortune, so that you might glean something in your bad." He reminded his hearers likewise of a truth that might well be painfully present to some of them—that their profession was one peculiarly demanding a prudent provision for the future, depending as it did on the unfailing exercise of hardly-tasked powers. We can oily echo his good wishes for . the prosperous development of the reorganised institu tion, and trust that in its new form it will avoid all the mistakes and accidents; which chequered its earlier course, so that it may become one of the recognised and stable charitable societies of our country, of an extent, a wealth and an efficacy com mensurate with the:prominent position at present held by the Fourth Estate. It was, of course, im possible at a meeting so largely attended by the votaries of St. Stephen's to avoid reference to that particular department of the press which is con nected with the Houses of Parliament. It is not so long since the groat constitutional victory of public reports of the debates was fought and won that the present generation should altogether forget the struggle or what it owes to the men who carried it. Sir ERSKINE PERRY, in proposing the toast of the two Houees, remarked that a relative of his own, when first he went professionally to report in the House of Lords, was forced to take his notes secretly is his hat, and that some one having observed the fact even those notes were useless, although the debate was one of great importance. We may fancy the disappointment and mortification of the young d(lftant nt so ignoble a conclusion to his labours ! Lord HouGwroN, in speaking of the interest with which, during his long career in the Lower House, he '4ad watched the Reporters' Gallery, observed that he sometimes felt like the old Spanish monk, who believed the only realities around him to be the pictures on the wall, for that as brave yoatla and hoary age alike passed away from the scene, he was often inclined to think that the gallery was the most permanent institution, and the busy occupants of the benches below them were but the flitting shadows. Mr. DENAIAN, in a humorous address, foretold a prosperous career for the young society, and Mr. NEWDEGATE, who readily acknowledged the obligations of parlia mentary representatives to the press, which set their words and nations fairly befera their consti tuents, both joined in hopes and congratulations. So that altogether this inauguration took place under happy auspices, attended, as was fitting, by many kindred spirits, presided over by an old well wisher and literary man, and giving from the amount of the sums it has already collected every reasonable ground for cheerful anticipations of a useful and prosperous career. We trust that a prudent and careful management will husband its resources and administer its affairs in a liberal and yet provident manner, and that those who have so kindly and promptly come forward with their assistance at the outset may watch over its interests in the same spirit, until it has grown and increased enough to tape its place among well endowed and widely established institutions. PROPOSED SHOREDITCH HOSPITAL, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEN. SIR,--I am requested to ask you to give publicity to the enclosed letter, and beg to add that all the members of the preliminary committee, and all bat three of the original members of The Committee, have now disconnected them selves from the promoters,—l am, sir, your obedientservant, JAMES EDMUNDS, M,D, 35, Finsbury-circus, 8.C., 23d May, 1361, (Copy•) We find it necesnry to withdraw cur names from the list of vice-patrons of the proposed "St. Leonard's Hos pital." TOWNSTIEND, (Signed) ENITELD, M.P., ROBERT lIANBURY, M.P. May 23, 1864. THE FAMOUS DIAMOND CALLED " THE STAR OF THE SOUTH" has arrived by the last English mail at Bom bay. It is in tho possession of Messrs, Volkart Brothero. The value of this diamond is said to be seven and a half millions of francs. A good opportunity for a native Prince to enrich his regalia, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND T HEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, TURN HIM OUT. Followed by THE MAID OF HONOUR. Miss Ada Swanborough. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. Thorne, Commence at 7. COALS. --The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL?. Direct from their own Collieries. 245. per ton. D ou ble .. 20s. per ton. Marquis' Top rii. „ Nuts... .. 18s•„ De,p 21s. „ pots, Westboue Park-road, IV., and 17, South Wharf , Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. rViiE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," j. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, pan be had Every Evening of G. it. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather—Sun Office, May 23, 1864. -- o THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 6l Barometer-29.91. Wind—N.W.; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DA.Y.—Morning, 3h. 3m. 7 Afterncon, 3h. 25m. rO.KOBBOW.-Morning, 3h. 45m.—Afternoon, 412. Bm. g SUM HEALTH OF THE POPE, According to one Telegram, we read—" In spite of the disclaimer of the Moniteur the Pope is believed to be very ill." According to another, under date "R3me, Wed nesday (via Marseilles). The Pope has left his apartments, and is expected to attend the procession at the fete of Corpus Christi." So that, in point of fact, the health of his Holiness the Pope is so alarming that it is fully expected by the latest accounts from Rome that he will assist on Thursday next at the grand celebrations on the feast of Corpus Christi ! In proof at any rate of the exceeding accuracy of the reports of his serious re lapse, it is certaia that he has recently quitted his apartments ! PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 23. The Crown Prince of Prussia has left for Stettin to assume the command of the 2d army corps. His Royal Highness is expected to return this evening. A banquet is to be given at the new Palace in Potsdam to-morrow in celebration of the birthday of her Majesty Queen Victoria. PRANCE. BOURSE, May 21.—The market is rather heavy, and prices have slightly receded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 70c. Mobilier have also declined, and are last quoted at 1,156 f. 25c. Rail way Market quiet, bull• pretty firm. The market closed as follows : It per Cents 93 25 Italian Loan 69 05 Do. end month.... Do. end month 69 05 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 66 65 Do. end month — Credit Mobilier...,ll4B 75 Russian Do. end m0nth....1151 25 Austrian .. — Bank Shares 3352 60 Spanish Threes.... 51 50 Credit Foncier 1250 Home Debt .. 49 75 Roman SAIL ;YAM Cash. Account. Orleans ..... 882 50 .. 882 50 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 880 .. 883 75 New ditto 877 50 .. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 362 50 .. Austrian Lorrbard North of Spain Saragossa .. 568 75 .. 562 50 Ditto to Barcelona .... •. THE BOMBAY MAIL, By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived files of papers from Bombay to April 28, and from Calcutta to April 20. We take the following summary from the Bombay Gazette of April 28 : "It is reported in telegrams received at Madras trots Calcutta that the Hon. Ashley Eden has re- turned to Darjeeling from his mission to Blaootan, where he was grossly insulted in public Durbar by the Chief, and dismissed with great indignity, after having been compelled to sign a treaty making over to them the whole of Assam, including the tea estates held by Europeans, which are to be taken over at a valuation. " His Excellency the Viceroy left Calcutta on the evening of the 15th inst., and expects to reach Simla on the 30th idem. His Excellency was at Allahabad on the 17th and 18th, Cawnpore on the 19th, and Meerut on the 21st. He will arrive at Umballah on the 27th inst., where he will be the guest of Sir Herbert Edwardes. "Brigadier-General Sir Neville Chamberlain, K.C.8., while in Calcutta on his way home, has been the guest of the Viceroy at Government-house. "his Excellency the Viceroy has directed that the Supreme Council shall, from and after the let May next, and until further notice, assemble at Simla. " The Hon. Mr. Justice Norman has been ap pointed to officiate as Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta during the absence of Sir Barnes Peacock, who has gone home. Sir Charles Wood, in reply to a telegram from the Viceroy, has decided that the appointment of Chief Justice can only be held by a barrister judge. " Disturbances have broken out in Bhootan, in the Dhurm Raj territory. The Deb Raja has been dismissed, and a number of inferior landholders and officers have sought refuge in British territory. "The Bill providing for the solemnisation of marriages in Jadia of persons professing the Chris tian religion has been passed, and received the con firmation of the Viceroy. " The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have determined to reduce their rates of passage money between Bombay and England, from £lOO to £B5, from the 9th of June next. "It is currently reported that Sir Charles Trevelyon proceeds to England in December next, and that his successor will re Mr. Forster, one of her M-jesty's Finance Commissioners. " Me State prisoners of the Royal house of Delhi, now languishing in confinement at Rangoon, having, on the death of the ex-King, applied for leave to return to Delhi or some part of the North-Westeru Provinces, Sir Charles Wood has refused to meddle with what has been ruled respecting this family in India, and hes:turned a deaf ear to their application. " Colonel Eden, the Political Agent at Oodeypour. in Central India, was uwbbed by some 300 or 400 persons on the 31st March last, who rushed into the Residency, shouting andviolently gesticulating and throwing stones. Colonel E len has rendered him self unpopular with certain evil disposed persons who feel aggrieved at his cutting in force the law against certain crimes, more especially hi s prohibi tion of the custom of Merida (human) sacr ifices. It has been decided to opeu the Bombay , Baroda, and Central India line of railway fro m Bomba y through to Ahmedabad on the let of Ju ne next for passenger traffic, and immediately after the won- " Her Majesty'd ship soon for goods traffic. Severn, 5 1 , ca rr y in g the broad pennant of Commodore Mont resor, C. 8., took her final departure from Bombay for Trincomalee on the 15th inst. Shortly after getting under weigh one of her men fell overboard from the top and was drowned. " One of the persons injured in the late railway accident near Mahim has since died. " A dreadful accident has happe ned at a review of the artillery at Bellary, fou r men havin g been blown to pieces and eight disabled by the explosion of a tumbril. " A drill-havildar of the 31st Punjaub Native Infantry has been shot by two recruits of that re- The assassins are Eusofzye F' tlli tab rrived at Bom a giment, who first robbed an d then murdered him, a i t supplementary " The ship Cospatrick, wire of the Persian Gulf te l egraph, i Bom bay on the 15th iust., and proceeds to Gunder, via Kurrachee, this day. "The Bombay share mar ket has again been in a very excited state, but ha s latterl y become rather quieter, time-bargains having been prohibited by an understanding among the brokers for eight days, in cons( ouence of the failure of some speculators to meet their losses, and the absconding of several others. " The 21st Regiment Royal North British Fusi liers have arrived at Madras direct from En gland and are new located at Fellary, in the barracks reunt l y cecup i e d Ly the 74th Highlanders. "The annual exhibition for the distribution of prizes and scholarships to the successful students of the Grant Medical College, Bombay, was held cn the 13th inst., his excellency Sir Bartle Frere pre siding on the occasion. " Cholera has been committing great ravages during the last fortnight at Bombay, Broach, and Biroda. Major A. H. Curtis, President of the Municipal Board and locome•tax Commissioner at Bombay, is one of the latest victims of this epidemic. " Mr. George Scott, C S., Collector of Bombay, has becu appointed by Goyernment President of the Municipal Boma, in succession to Major A. H. Curtis, denJased. " It is expected that Mr. A. B. Warden, C.S., will succeed Mr. Erskine as dodge of the High Court, Bombay. "The scarcity and dearness of grain is so great at Neemuch and some other parts of Central India that a famine is feared to be imminent. " Lady Frere, wife of the Governor of Bombay arrived here from England in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail steamer Benares, on the 26th inst. " The ship Shannon (Dunbar), from Liverpool, arrived at Bombay on the 21st inst., after a passage of six months. The cbi.-Jf mate and four of the crew are in custody, charged with having conspired to deprive Captain Danbar of the command of the ship and to cast her away. " We have no news of importance from Cabal, or from any other part of Central Asia." To the Editor of the Sun, SlR,—Your article of Thursday on the Customs Estab ishwents calls forth a few observations from me. The greatest portion of the revenue of the country is collected by this department of the civil service. In that collection a certain amount of responsibility necessarily rests witkand trustworthiness is requisite in, the employes. For this they receive an average salary of £2OO per annum after 20 years service. Such being the case, I ask whether an over eager parsimoniousness is not displayed by the au thorities most destructive to a true economy ? For a care less and slovenly performance of duties is the probable result of ill-paid services, and what can be more depressing, or likely to produce indifference in the discharge of his duties, than for any man to find that the remuneration he receives is totally inadequate to his reasonable requirements —and what can be mote detrimental to the public service than that a large number of those employed in it should be continually struggling against pecuniary embarrassments, commencing almost from the time they enter upon it. In the beginning of April were published the Civil Ser vice pstimates, and never was a more striking anomaly exhibited than met my eye in comparing the two offices of the Inland Revenue and the Customs. The revenue collected by the Customs for the year 1863 amounted to about 21 millions, and the expense of the establishment to £771,000. That collected by the Inland Revenue to about 18 millions, and its attendant expenses amounted to £1,213,000. This difference in the expense of the two establishments arises from the superior scale of payment awarded to the clerks in the Custom House ; and that such a difference should exist in two departments, the duties in which are precisely similar, and the examinations previous to appoint. meat the same, is most incomprehensible. The clerks in the Inland Revenue-office are not consi dered too highly paid, and it seems to me to be only just that their brethren in the Custom-house should receive similar remuneration for similar duties. At any rate, that a notoriously hardworking and meritorious body of men should receive such salaries as may enable them to main tain themselves and their families--a thing which their petition to Parliament shows is beyond the power of the greater portion of them,---I am, dce,, London, May 21, 1864. SCRUTATOR. The Late Fraud on the Banks, The public will remember that in August last a warrant was issued for the apprehension of a Hungarian, named Sigismund Dietrichstein, upon a charge of having by fraud and conspiracy obtained the sum of 1;10,000 in Bank of England notes, with which he absconded, and at the same time a large reward was offered for his apprehension. The warrant was obtained at the instance of Mr. Mullens, the solicitor to the Bankers' Association, on behalf of two of the City banks, from whom the money had been obtained, and the circumstances of the case were somewhat peculiar. It appeared that Dietrichstein had carried on business in Old Broad• street as a merchant, and was considered a person of responsibility and credit, and he kept an account with two bankers, one at the West-end of the town and the other in the City, and presented all the outward appearances of wealth and respectability, There was no doubt, howaver, from what subsequently occurred, that these appearances were entirely fallacious, and that Dietrichstein, in conjunction with one or two others, had concocted a deep-laid scheme of fraud, which was carried out in a most ingenious manner. He had been in the habit of speculating on the Stock Exchange, and in' the month of August it appeared that he purchased for the account a large quantity of foreign bonds. The account day was Saturday, and on that day he received the bonds, and gave cheques upon his bankers for the amount. As these cheques were crossed and Sunday intervened, two days elapsed before the fraud could be discovered, but it turned out that Dietrichstein had with drawn the whole of his money from the bankers except a very small sum ; but when this fact was discovered it was found that he and his wifo and child had left England. It should be stated that the moment he obtained possession of the bonds he placed them in the hands of two of the City bankers as security for an advance of £lO,OOO, which amount he received in Bank of England notes, and took with him when he departed. Upon these facts be coming known an application was made to the Lord Mayor upon the subject, but it seems that at first there was some doubt as to the character of the offence that had been committed, the circumstances of the alleged crime being somewhat novel; but in the result a warrant was granted for the apprehension of Dietrichstein upon the charge of fraud and conspi racy. This warrant was placed in the hands of Moss, one of the City detectives, for execution, and he started off, accompanied by Mr. Pollaky, in pursuit of the fugitive. After a long chase the officer suc ceeded in arresting him at Pesth, in Hungary, and in his possession there was found a considerable portion of the money with which he had absconded, and a good many of the notes also appeared to have been changed by his wife. Dietrichstein was then conveyed to Vienna, ; and an application was made to the Austrian government for his ex traditior, but Caunt Rechberg, the Austrian minister, refused to deliver him up on the ground that he was not charged with felony, which offence alone was the subject of the ex tradition treaty, but merely with fraud, and Mr. Mullens, who had himself gone to Vienna for the purpose - of endeavouring to procure the delivering up of the prisoner, waa obliged to return to Eng land, leaving him in the custody of the Austrian police. It appears that the matter has since been brought to a conclusion by the whole of the money that was obtained by Dietrichstein having been repaid. As above stated, a considerable sum was in his posses sion when he was apprehended, and the whole of the remainder has since been given up. The bonds that were obtained will consequently be restored, and no further proceedings will be taken with re ference to the charge. Great Conflagration at Victoria Docks, Yesterday (Sunday) morning, at a few minutes before one o'clock, an electric telegraph message was received at the 1. arious stations of the Fire Brigade that a serious conflagration was raging on the Hudson-wharf, Victoria Docks. This property, as is well known, occupied a large euperfices, whereon were erected sundry factories belonging to Messrs. Odam and Co., the representatives of the Patent Blood Manure Company. The first discovery of the fire was made by a police constable of the K division, who in passing along his beat perceived smoke in great volumes issuing from the factory nearest the eastern end. This part of the factory was 200 feet long and 116 broad. It was termed the vitriol department, and contained no less, it is stated by the manager, than 3,000 tuna of oil of vitriol, The engines quickly arrived, but in spite of every exertion the flames were not quenched until the lapse of nearly nine hours. The damage is very extensive. The boots and uniforms of the firemen and the hose of the engines suffered some injury from the vitriol that ran out of the building. As soon as the fire was got under a searching in quiry was made by the brigade authorities to ascer tain the cause of the disaster, the result of which clearly showed that the over heat of an iron flue had occasioned the mischief. Captain Shaw, in his official report to the insurance companies forming the London Brigade, describes the damage done as follows The vitriol department of two floors high, 200 feet long, and 116 feet broad, belonging to Messrs, Odam and Co., the r epresentatives of the Patent Blood Manure Company at Victoria Docks, burnt out, and roof off; buildings and contents eout maniediting damaged by fle and water," THE ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Yr. Pechter as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, The long expected and eagerly looked for revival of Mr. Fechter's Hamlet "came off" at last, like one of the Great Events of the Season as it is, on Saturday evening. In many respects this, the indisputable masterpiece of Shakspere's all-incom parable genius, has never been more magnificently put upon the stage than it has now at last been put upon the stage of the Lyceum Theatre under Mr. Fechter's management. An immense and b r illiant audience crowded stalls, pit, boxes, and gallery, from the floor of the house to within an inch or two of the ceiling, on Saturday, in visible evidence of the curiosity awakened in regard to this grand revival. One or two of the scenic effects—it should be observed at once--scenic Effects from which so much had been anticipated—fully realised our expectations. In one of them, the extraordinary character of which had been whispered about beforehand (evidently erroneously), we were doomed, it is true, to be disappointed. The rumour in regard to this purely supposititious stage Effect, having been, that upon the castle platform where Hamlet is seen following in the path taken by the Ghost, the latter would have passed over the snowy battlements without leaving any trace whatever of its footprints, the footprints of the Prince in pursuit of the ghastly apparition being at the same time clearly discernible. Nothing of this, however, was witnessed, of course, on Saturday, any more than the once-talked-of application of the famous Dircks and-Pepper optical contrivance, with a view to the more vivid realisation of the spectral illusion in the ghost-scenes of the great Tragedy. Applications of eccentric contrivances of this exceptional and even extraordinary character might, however, not unjustly have been reprobated by the truer Shaksperian students as partaking overmuch of a tendency to mere claptrap. It is probably judi cious, therefore, that nothing of the kind was even attempted. In the more legitimate care for the tnise en-scene, however, at the Lyceum, everything that could reasonably be desired has been cared for with a hand lavish sometimes to an excess of absolute munificence. The scenery by Telbin, always effective, was in several instances almost magically illusive. The platform scenes in the first act, and the graveyard scene in the last were worthy of the admiration with which they were welcomed. But the grandest display of all was in the heart of the tragedy, in the third act, that is, where the play within the play is performed in the grand Hall of the Palace before the majesty of Denmark. It was altogether a sumptuous revelation of barbaric pomp, and would have tended even of itself to have retie dered remarkable to an extraordinary degree this revival of " Hamlet," at the Lyceum under Mr. Fechter's management. Here, however, it should be remarked at once that the new pictorial decorations, the scenery, the picturesque and often gorgeous costumes, the splendid up holstery work, and all the rest of it—were wholly and absolutely subordinated to the care evidently devoted throughout to the acting by Mr. Fechter and his company. The impersonations, apart from the gifted actor-manager, himself, were many of them, in a high degree worthy of admira tion. Miss Kate Terry's Ophelia was an exquisitely pathetic and tender realisation of that lovely imagining of Shakspere's. Miss Eleworthy's Queen Gertrude, again, was, all through the play signally meritorious. The Polonius of Mr. Brougham lacked that unctuous senility which was noticeable of late years in Mr. Meadows—and which in the his tory of the modern stage is understood to have had its most felicitous pourtrayal years ago by that true Shaksperian actor the late Mr. Blanchard. The King Claudius of Mr. Emery was one of the most successful delineations of a stage monarch that we have for a long white witnessed. As a piece of serious acting it was as excellent in its way as poor Bland's Burlesque Sovereigns used to be as speci mens of grotesque impersonation. Mr. Shore looked Horatio, and that sae all : while the Ghost of Hamlet's father, as represented by Mr. Jordan, bad by far too robustuous a voice for a mere unsub stantial apparition. As to the part, the part of parts in the whole Tragedy, the Tragic hero among all Tragic heroes, Hamlet the Dane, as impersonated by Mr. Pechter—what play-goer in London does not already know it, and know it perfectly ? Hamlet the blonde-haired, Hamlet in funereal black, but without a touch of the glit tering bugles on his picturesque attire. Fechter's Hamlet it. a word ! That strange, new, thoroughly unconventional Hamlet that startled the world of London playgoers either into admiration or into indignation, accordingly as the beholders happened to be infatuated or not in regard to the old tradi tional version of the Danish Prince—in his personal attributes, in his very dress, in his various readings, in effect, in the whole spirit and in the whole sub stance of that great tragic character. At the period of Mr. Fechter's original appearance as Hamlet at the Princess's, we carefully analyzed the intellec tual peculiarities more especially noticeable in so many of his astounding innovations. Upon the whole our estimate then of what appeared to be its eminent charms, even among them its pre-eminent beauties, has now been confirmed upon the revival of the great tragedy at the Lyceum on Saturday last, under the distinguished . Actor's own management. Whether or not it can be traceable to the hiatus that has occurred in the representation of Ham. let by Mr. Pechter—by reason of the popularity last season of " The Duke's Motto" and this season, until now, of the kindred melodrama of " Bel Demonio"—certain it is that, some among the most exquisite of the new points in Mr. Fechter's reading of Hamlet were, according to our notion, either forgotten or strangely slurred over on Satur day. Where Polonius, for example, asks him, in the first act, whether he will not come in out of the air—his sudden exclamation, with an indescribable pathos in the very tone of his voice, " Into my grave ?—passed on Saturday almost unnoticed, almost unthought of. His innovative readings, again, still strangely jar at times upon our long accustomed sense of the meaning of the words of Shakspere. As, for example, where the Ghost is re lating to him his being barbarously murdered in the orchard,when Hamlet, listening, horror stricken, to the narrative, and suddenly recognizing the identity of the assassin through the Ghost's generalised description of him, Mr. Fechter sighs forth, as in an agonised sigh " 0 my prophetic soul !" and then, interrogatively asks suddenly of the Ghost, with a stress upon the pronoun—" My Uncle ?" It is in the love scenes with Ophelia, how ever, that Mr. Fechter, to our thinking, altogether defies competition. The exquisitely pathetic ten• derness of his acting, of his inimitable bye-play, of the wonderful fluctuation of contending emotions over his eminently expressive, and also eminently handsome, face, the tearful music of his intonations throughout those charming love scenes with Ophelia—but especially towards the close of that one in which he bids her again and yet again, in an incoherent phreezy of con tending passions (some assumed, some real) " Get thee to a Nunnery !"—roused the Lyceum audience on Saturday, as the audiences at the Princess's used to be aroused, we need not say for how many hundred nights, to a pitch of enthusiasm as loud and prolonged in its expression, as it was in itself absolutely unaffected. The popular trage dian, it should be said, immediately on his first appearance, was welcomed with a long-continued, and again and yet again reiterated thunder of ap plause, and afterwards during the evening, was summoned before the audience anew at the end of every act (save one), to receive a repetition of the same cordial acclamations. The single exception referred to above in parenthesis being attributable solely to the admiration which had been immediately before then excited among the audience by the last scene of Ophelia, in that strange eventful tragedy, where she comes on dazed into madness by her griefs, warbling snatches of song, and distributing flowers among the royal bystanders--a scene in which Miss Kate Terry made a genuine hit, win ning on her exit a stormy outburst of plaudits. At the close of all the other acts, Mr, Ftchter had house. to appear anew before the footlights (and no woi der !) to receive from his audience renewed expreg sion of their admiration. It was a greeting jus ly due to him on Saturday list at once as an actor and as a manager, as a manager of eztraosdinary enttr. prise, and as an actor of very rare gifts and of unquestionable genius. „I fiy,p' ' raj 7,11 e l If 1.1 1e • - tti HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 19. The Queen walked in the grounds in the morn ing, and went out in the afternoon, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Chutchill. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena, with the Prince and Princess Leiningen, drove to the Linn of Dm. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was present at the marriage of his cousin Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha with the Archduke Joseph, which was solemnised at Coburg on the 12th inst. His royal highness proceeded from thence on a visit to his sister, the Princess Alice (Princess Louis of Hesse Darmstadt), and goes by Carlsruhe and Geneva to Marseilles, where he will join the Racoon on the 22d inst. MAY 20. The Queen went out in the grounds in the morn ing, and drove in the afternoon with her P,3yal Highness the Princess Leiningen. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by ,he Countess of Morton and Major Teesdale, drove :o Hampton Conrt on Saturday. _ _ The Prince ane Princess, at tended by the Countess of Morton and Major Teesdale, went to the Italian Opera, Covent-garden, in the evening. The Rev. Professor Gibson had the honour of explaining to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the details of the illuminated' address pre sented to their royal highnesses, on their marriage, by the Presbyterians of Ireland. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Morton and Major Teesdale in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The communiln service was read by the Rev. the Subdean, the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the Rev. Thos. Helmore. The Rev. the Subdean preached the sermon from Psalm ix., v. 10. Anthem, " I was in the spirit," Blow; sung by Messrs. R. Barnby, Benson, Bradbury, and Whitc- Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The following were present during the service His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishop of St. David's, the Duke of St. Albans, Earl St. Germans, Marquis of Bath, Viscount Syd ney, Lord Vivian, Lord Hardinge, and Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps. The Thellusson Bank, Of the six millionnaire bankers of the last cen tury, the last-named, Mr. Peter Thellusson, rose into fame in a very singular manner. Mr. Thellusson was born at Paris, in 1735, the son of Mons. Isaac Thellusson, a native of Geneva, who was established as banker in a good way of business, which he ex tended considerably by the assistance of a clerk, afterwards famous in history as M. Necker, the Minister of Finance during the French Revolution. Mons. Isaac Thellusson, appreciating the value of his clerk, admitted him after a time into partners ship, so that the firm thenceforth became Thellusson and Necker. When Peter Thellusson had grown up into manhood, he was likewise admitted es mem ber of the Paris firm ; but the first throes of the revolution which were felt ever after made hire restless at his desk, and he resolved on emigrating to London and establishing an English branch bank in connection with the house of Thellusson and Necker. A man of great sagacity and extraordinary perseverance, coupled with a desire for making money which amounted to an all-absorbing passion Mr. Peter Thellusson found success at his door, and in a few years built up one of the first banking establishments in the British metropolis. But, however great his wealth, he still yearned for more ; and pondering day and night over this one great object of his life, he at last hit upon an extraordi nary expedient for multiplying the fortune amassed by him to an unheard of extent. In April, 179 6 , he put his name to a last will and testament which made the house of Thellusson for ever memorable. Under this will several legacies were left by Mr Peter Thellusson to his wife, his three sons nod three daughters, amounting together to about £lOO,OOO, and the rest of his fortune, valued at above £600,000, was made over to trustees, to' accumulate and to be laid out by them in the pur chase of estates in England, until such time as all his children, and the male children of his sons a nd grandsons should die, after which the whole pro perty was directed to go to the nearest lineal male descendants bearing the name of Thellusson. Among these descendant*, the property was then to be distributed in the following manner :—The immense estate—grown up into gigantic dimensions by the action of interest and compound interest was to be divided into three equal shares : the first to go to the male descendants of the testator's eldest son, another to the second son's male descendants , and the remaining to the male heirs of the third. In case of failure of male descendants of any one of the three his share was to go to the other two; and if there was a failure of two, then the whole three lots was to be consolidated into one vast property, constituting by far the largest territorial fortune ever known in Europe, or indeed in the world. Finally, in the event that there should remain no lineal male descendants, the teste.tor rected that the whole estate should be sold, and th e proceeds applied to pay off the national debt. was the grandest of all the grand schemes of M r ' Peter Thellusson—to pay off the public debt d Great Britain ! The very idea is bewaderilag to the ordinary mind. Peter Thellusson's calculations seemed beaut if n l .- 1 7 correct; and evidently not the shadow of a doubt existed in his mind that by the simple accumu lite tion through three or four generations his weAtli would swell into dimensions compared with which the fortunes of Kings and Emperors would be mere beggarly trifles. Unfortunately, the te 6 " tater had left one item out of calculation- 0° fact of the existence of a British institution called the Court of Chancery, at the shrine of w htch there worship a host of long-winded gentlemen, t lu anxious to participate in the pleasing action of il l ' terest and compound interest. In July, 1797, )11. : Peter Thellusson sh u t hi s eyes, di recte d, no doubt' eagerly towards the f u t ure an d t h e coun tl es s wea lth accumulating for o th er Th e ll ussons a ft er generation to come ; but after little more than a year, in tie month month of Decemb er , 1798, t w o bills were alreal filed in the Cou r t o f Ch a ncery against the w ill ' the one by the widow and her sons and t hree daughters and the husbands of the two then sari ried, and tha other by the acting trustees ° e , the bulk of the property. The validity of the viii ; was established by the Lord Chancellor and judg esat the Court of Chancery ;;nevertheless, the ge ntlsi r of the long robe were not all inclined to give up bblis, valuable prize. For years and years to comet applications, and injunctions in re Thellusson k' e l rs cropping up in the law courts, and legal n 3 i li os kept digging into the wonderful estate w itb , si d hearty energy as any miners in the Australian evna fields. Poor Mrs. Thellusson got sick over it, El it, died of a broken heart—or a broken Pu rs January, 1805, seven years after her ale _ ulat il o husband. All the three sons of Pettr Thellus'th d e had seats in the House of Commons,an . eldest, Peter Isaac Thellusson, obtained an peerage, and changed into Baron Rendle:oshep—; For all this the family not did greatly,ses in the world, and having once got into the niecti;t3 of the honourable Court of Chancery, neve r r ,..,„ 0 out of them again. Under the assiduous wo g htY 11 of the gentlemen of the long robe , the ei TIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1864.